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ASEL lVI.l 4WA, DE, OF i LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Paten-t No. 93,254, dated .August 3, 1869 IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINE FOR SPOCLING- THREAD.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the' same.

To all persons to lwhom tltese presents may-come Be it known that I, ASEL M. WADE, of Lawrence, -of the county of Essex, and State of Massachusetts,

hare invented a new and useful Improvement in Machinery for Spooling Thread; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specilication and represented inthe accompanying drawings, v

of which- Figure 1 is a -front elevation, and

' Figure2, a transverse section of a spooling-machinc, with my invention appliedj'to it. Theypurpo'se'of the improvement is to hold the 'wound bobbin while the yarn or thread may be in the act of being yunwound there'om and transferred to andnyzound npcna spool yThe bobbin to be unwound is usually supported by a -spindle, the employmentv of which,'with its necessary adjuncts, .my improvement renders. unnecessary, as I use, in the placeof a series of such spindles, a

ba1`-,tb1medwitha series of cells or cavities, each being open at its front end, and provided with a slot opening through its top and to the front end.

In the drawings-4 A denotes the frame of an ordinary chine;v f 'B, one of the receiving-spools; and C, its supportingspindlc. Y l) is the thread, or yarn-guide bar, furnished with a yarn-guide, a, arranged in front of the spool B.

f The hobbin from which the yarn is to be drawn and spooled is shown at D', as placed in one ofthe cells or 's pooling-macavities, l l1, &c., of a long bar, E, which is arranged with respect to the receiving-bobbin and the yarnguide, and within the frame A, in manner as represented.

There is, within the bar E, a sexies of cells, b b,each of them being open atits front end and closedatlits rear. It is also closed at top, except in having a slot, c, formed therein, and opening at the front, or month of the cell. Each cell has flaring sides and a curved bottom. v

When a bobbin, D', islaid within a cell, its rear end will bear-againstthe rear end ofthe cell.

The yarn from the bobbin is to be led. up through 'the slot c, thence through the eye of the guide a, and thence to the receiving-spool, upon which the yarn is to be wound in the usual way.

I generally pivot or connect the cell-bar to the frame A, so that the former may be turned within the latter, and xed in a manner to bring the bar ,into the best position for supporting the bobbins relatively to the uide-bar.

The cell-bar has many advantages over the spindles for supporting the bobhins, as it saves the expense of the oil required to lubrlcate their bearings. -The friction of the bobbin on the bottom of the cell obviates the necessity of any artificial .arrangement for. l producing friction, so as to impede the unwiuding of the thread.

With the cell the tension on the thread or yarn is nearly uniform, and consequently there is less liability of the breakingof the yarn when the cell is employed in lieu of the spindle. Furthermore, the cost of the cell-bar is very much less than that of a sethof spindles, and the yarn is not liable to be over-strained vby its use.

By having such cell open at its front end, the bohbin can beeasily introduced into the cell or removed from it, as'occasion may require. So, also, by having the thread-slot of 'each cell open at its front, we are enabled to pass the yarn into the slot to better ,advantage than would he thecase were the slot closed in front.

' 'I maire no, claim to the combination of a frame of cells (to hold balls of yarn) with a carriage, and a series of spindles of a spinning-machine, s'uch being as represented in the United States Patent No. 51,054, dated November 21, 1865, my invention being animprovement having reference to a distinct machine, viz, 'one for spooling yarn.

Iv therefore claim as my invention the improved @spiraling-machine, as constructed with the celled bar E arranged as described, with the series of guides and the spooling-bobbins and spindles, or theequivalent thereof', to operate as and for the purpose described.

I also claim the bar as made, with each cell open at its front end, closed at its rear end, and provided with a slot through its top, as explained.

ASEL M. WADE.

Witnesses z R. H. EDDY, SAnUnL N. PIPER. 

